Re: RAT Words

[Tkpshumka@aol.com]

To Jeffrey Jones: 

It's ALL math. The unified field theory is realized in everything we do and 
create. We merely re-create the formulas and functions which dictate the 
universe. Language is merely an extension of those "formulas". This is not to 
discount the power, beauty and functional necessity of language, but, as we 
have evolved and been educated in a culture which separates body and mind, 
language becomes an intellectual function, separating us from the power of 
our other senses, and is given focus and more "importance" - and in theater, 
language can be a way to - from the audience's perpsective - remain at a 
distance, detached. 

In order to affect, touch, move, inspire - feel anything! - through our ART, 
we must first destroy the immediate barrier; language. Ater a sufficient time 
of exploration and experimentation without this element, we can then begin to 
re-integrate language as one more element in the event, not as "more 
important" but with equal importance as all the other elements.

Other note: in regards to "chaos" - Gleick's popular book CHAOS created a 
flurry of misunderstandings and misinterpretations. His ultimate theory 
states that, in fact, the "chaos Theory" - which Anne Bogart professes to be 
a champion of (in her misunderstanding of Gleick's true meaning) - is that 
chaos does not exists, as we continually discover the order (rules, theorems, 
mathematical equations) which explain all events. There is no true 
randomness. And all attempts to achieve "true randomness", chaos, disorder, 
(Joyce, Dadism, etc) are futile as we are hard-wired to seek out "meaning" 
and "sense" in this existence in order to survive as a specie.

Yet, despite this seemingly depressing pre-deterministic perspective, I 
personally continue to engage in this futile attempt, to "break the rules" 
and present the unexpected. To keep the viewer off-balanced, on edge - a 
state of "terror". Why??????????????????

Tanya
Shumka Theatre